Lulu Sweet, 1860 Sixteen year-old Lulu Sweet was a singer with a San Francisco-based company that came to BC in 1860 or 1861. According to Chuck Davis, Sweet was one of the favourite performers of the Royal Engineers, who were stationed in the Lower Mainland and built much of the infrastructure of the young colony on behalf of the British Empire:  During a tour of local waters, the commander of the Engineers, Col. Richard Moody, was showing Miss Sweet various features of the landscape. As they passed one island in the Fraser, she asked its name. “It has no name as yet,” Col. Moody responded, “but in tribute to you we shall call it Lulu Island.”  Source: Steveston Museum
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Lulu Sweet, 1860

Sixteen year-old Lulu Sweet was a singer with a San Francisco-based company that came to BC in 1860 or 1861. According to Chuck Davis, Sweet was one of the favourite performers of the Royal Engineers, who were stationed in the Lower Mainland and built much of the infrastructure of the young colony on behalf of the British Empire: 

During a tour of local waters, the commander of the Engineers, Col. Richard Moody, was showing Miss Sweet various features of the landscape. As they passed one island in the Fraser, she asked its name. “It has no name as yet,” Col. Moody responded, “but in tribute to you we shall call it Lulu Island.” 

Source: Steveston Museum

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